Further to my logic catch22 yesterday, it looks like cncpics.com is going to be broken for a while.<\/p>\n
Godaddy – the host of both that site and this blog (for the moment) are\u00c2\u00a0incapable\u00c2\u00a0of keeping a promise, they promised me late last night that they would not take the site off line and would give me time this morning to work through the issues.<\/p>\n
The issues are fairly simple, for reasons unknown the caching mechanism is creating a lot of file in the, well, cache area. This is not a bad thing generally as the cache helps the performance.<\/p>\n
However, the host has a strict 1024 file limit in any one folder. This limit was broken this week by a 925 picture collection – including the various\u00c2\u00a0derivatives\u00c2\u00a0the cache folders spiked up to 2-3000 files.<\/p>\n
There is a simple answer, all I need is access to the gallery so that I can remove a bunch of photo’s from this week. Once this happens the cache growth will go away everything will return to normal. except this morning the account is suspended.<\/p>\n
However, the issues is made a whole lot worse, very, very quickly. As soon as an admin notices that there are 1025 files in a folder, they instantly block access to the entire cache folder hierachy. Which leads the software to dump endless files in the $home folder, which leads to 16k files there, which leads to the account suspension.<\/p>\n
Long story short, I need to re-host the site, I am done with godaddy.<\/p>\n
I also cannot move the domains elsewhere for 60 day as I recently moved them to godaddy in a fit of ‘trying to keep everything together’.<\/p>\n
I have signed up for a new more powerful host elsewhere and I am testing gallery 3<\/p>\n